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I still don't know why you like to support apple so much but for someone on head-fi who probably thinks beats are overpriced, you like to support them a lot.
All i'm trying to say is that apple is loosing their status as being innovative and is using monopolistic ways to kill competitors.
My other issue with apple is that they are lagging behind on software, making way too much profit, hoarding over $130 billion in the bank, and not putting more $ in r&d.
I used to love apple and defended them a lot back when they innovated on many things until 2010. They dropped the ball from then on and for a company this big they need to fall so consumer can be first again.
You think apple is good for america? When a company hoards cash (most overseas) outsources most if not all manufacturing overseas, doesn't want to invest in new manufacturing jobs with all that cash than no they are definitely NOT good for america, and tries to limit consumer choices by suing other companies, that company is NOT good for america when it's trying to move forward.
Why does it matter? I buy what I want to buy. I don't buy Beats because I don't like them. Do I make fun of the people that do and belittle them in ever way shape possible?
Innovation is a very simple word. You take an invention and you make it better. You can put a stick behind a chair so you don't tip over(The Simpsons) and call that innovation in a way. The basic definition is just that. Innovation doesn't need to be big. IT can be anything.
Guess what? It works. The U.S does it in international politics and its companies and other companies use it. Those that don't are behind the times. Samsung is known by the locals to have deep connections with the authorities and country. Samsung more or less embodies S Korea. Are they to, handicap themselves when everyone else isn't. No said the man that wanted quality, No, said the people who wanted fair companies, No said the governments that don't have power.
Lagging behind on software? Apple isn't a large software maker. Well they are in a sense. But iOS 6 and their editing programs are just that, programs. Apple has been slowly and slowly relying more on very very good quality 3rd party apps(that they have good relations with(duh)) to fill up the App Store and Mac store and the Mac library.
R and D? They just put 3.5Billion in R and D this year. 1 Billion more than last year. They are putting as much money into R and D as they need. Microsoft is putting over 13 Billion and Google around the same. They aren't doing what Microsoft and Google are doing. Finacing huge many projects and hoping one wins. They are putting as much budget as needed into building and refining and making new products
I don't really care whether they are good for America. All I care about is if they have a product that I want. They have it(MBP)? I buy it. They don't have it (iPad mini)? I don't buy it. Simple as that.
Hoarding cash? They happned to come into a large amount of money and are debating what to do with it? Spend it on R and D? No. They already have way more than their employees and anyone needs. You know what they are building? A very expensive new building. Yes.
Jobs? In America? Why should they try for that? PR? Sure. Quality? Sure but they already have a good amount of American employees. Tim Cook is going to put a dividen out so there is that. Steve Jobs wanted no dividens so that there was more money to work on products. However if they want to invest in getting more product out and demand. Foxconn and many overseas assets would be a good place to start. They are a company. Not a job listed tower. They look for specialized workers in the U.S.
If a company that sues other companies is a bad thing. Then that company would by the end die. That is plain and simple. If what they are doing is actually bad in an objective way. Then they will die. I don't really care.
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Apple is a scumbag sue happy company.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/apple-reportedly-suing-polish-online-supermarket-trademarking-name-a-pl/
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/22/apple.amazon.app.fast/index.html
Apple knows they're out of ideas to steal and they're hoping to litigate everyone out of their way.
My opinion.
There are two spots left to get a job. Do you not apply to that dream job because you feel you are not qualified. No. You go there anyway as it may bear fruit. What if you got the job and someone else that may have been more qualified didn't? Well, you got the job. And here it is. Try, and you may be able to enforce your company. Don't, and we may never know.
Out of ideas to steal? Apple was a company that was in the grave pre 2007. If they just stole an idea. Nothing would have happened. They would be dead. They innovated and thus they are here today. Every company goes up and down.